Current Figure robots have 3-5x headroom in speed via existing actuators once software enables it.

Current Figure robots have 3-5x headroom in speed via existing actuators once software enables it. | we basically have another three to 5x in terms of speed and the actuators that we can run. The software is not enabling so it doesn't know how to do it yet. Uh so we can run like three to five times faster than what you saw today.

Watch events: Figure 03 shipment volume; BMW, 2nd customer deployment count

we basically have another three to 5x in terms of speed and the actuators that we can run. The software is not enabling so it doesn't know how to do it yet. Uh so we can run like three to five times faster than what you saw today.

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